A MAN has been sectioned after threatening to jump off a bridge.
Police were called to North Station Road, Colchester, shortly before 3pm on Saturday.
Concerns had been raised after a man, aged in his 20s, climbed over the bridge and was seen teetering on the edge.
Officers arrived and sectioned the man under the Mental Health Act.
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